If only this would have been an animation movie

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2013)

I felt compelled to write this review seeing the high marks the movie has. To me a movie has to be so much more than visual effects and sounds - a movie has to be a story, and has to deliver some message... even a popcorn movie.
"Pacific Rim" fails on so many levels: the cast is low and, with 2 exceptions, the performance is average, at best; instead of focusing on developing interesting characters the writer focused a lot on staying "politically correct" which did not add anything to story; script is full of stupid mistakes like: why the hell the need to speak with each other if their minds are connected?; and the list could go on.
I agree: nice 3D surround audio visuals and everything else but this would have turned out probably a lot better in an animation movie.
It is one of the worst movies I have seen released this year and I ended up watching it simply because of the 2 exceptions I've mentioned earlier: Ron Pelman who is like always adding a lot of flavor to his charter (wait for the final scene during the credits!), and Rinko Kikuchi who is playing well above the rest of the cast.
After seeing how bad the script for Pacific Rim turned out to be I can only hope that Guillermo del Toro's influence as a writer in the "The Hobbit" is going to be minimal.